Sept 2012

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ESA's Educational Activities on ISS
Nigel Savage
Education Programme Coordinator for HSO
ESTEC, 19 September 2012

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ESA ISS Education Mandate:
Increase awareness of Human
Spaceflight through education
Enhance appreciation and
understanding of the benefits,
challenges and importance of
space for Europe
General objectives
To stimulate the interest of youth in
science technology, engineering and
mathematics

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Direct target groups

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Indirect target groups
Informal educators
(museums, science
centres)
Space agencies (via
advisors or contact
person)
Media (science
journals e.g. Science
in School)

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Supporting modular didactic materials (1)
§ ISS education kits
§ Primary ISS kit
§ Secondary ISS kit
> Translated into 12 languages
§ DVDs
Mission 1, 2, 3, 4
§ Newton’s laws
§ Body in Space
§ Materials in Space
§ Space Robotics
Other
§ Ingredients for Life
§ Nutrition on Earth and in Space
§ Space Travel: An ATV perspective

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Supporting modular didactic materials (2)
§ Online lessons
§ upper secondary school students
§ Space-in-bytes - movies 4-8 mins on
ISS activities
§ primary and secondary (> 12)
§ Convection
§ Foam stability
§ Life in Space
§ A drop of water
§ ATV
§ Radiation
§ Gravitation and weightlessness etc..
> Translated in 13 languages
§ Online clips and YouTube videos
http://www.youtube.com/esa

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Mission based education programmes
• “Take Your Classroom into Space” experiments
• Cooperation with national space agencies
• Lessons and hardware for schools
• On-orbit video of experiment
• Live In-flight Call (with 4 different locations
Europe-wide)

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Proposed education programme
“Volare” Mission
• “Space Robotics” theme
• Cooperation with national space agencies (ASI)
• Space Robotics competition (secondary schools)
• On-orbit video of robotics -
• Space in bytes (Canadarm, Robonaut, SPHERES)
• Space Robotics lecture series – iTunesU, YouTube EDU
• Live In-flight Calls:-
• “Space Robotics” finals
• Mission X event in DLR/EAC July 2013
• ATV 4 educational event (HUJI, ASI (Milano TBD), DLR (location TBD)

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University level education
§ SpaceMaster - Erasmus Mundus Master Course in
Space Science and Technology
§ 2yrs Master Course under the umbrella of the EC
§ Each year around 30-35 non-EU students and 15-20
EU students join the SpaceMaster Course
§ Life in Space
§ Annual two-week summer course main topic
exobiology
§ ABC-net
Lecture series for the Astrobiology Lecture Course
Network
§ Space medicine -Workshop
§ Bachelor or Master’s level student of physiology,
medicine, sports science, biomedical engineering or
any other life science related field
e-learning session with ESA
astronaut Frank De Winne
Hands-on experience
during the courses

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Projects for teachers
ESA summer workshop for teachers
• This year’s edition: 10 to 13 July 2012
• Learning and sharing innovative and inspiring methods using space as a
means for engaging students with the sciences
• Open to teachers of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) subjects in secondary schools (students 12-18 years old) of ESA
Member and Cooperating States

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Space Lab: with Google/YouTube, NASA, ESA, JAXA
Global competition launched in Autumn 2011
§ Winning experiments performed on the ISS, live-streamed
to a global audience late 2012.
Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut
§ Six week programme targeting health and nutrition. Participation
of 6000 students and teachers Europe-wide
§ International Cooperation: 10300 children worldwide participating
in 2012
Aimed at primary school
students (8-12 years old) -
focusing on healthy eating
and exercise
International initiatives:
Collaboration on primary and secondary
education with ISS partners
SPHERES: ZeroRobotics Competition with NASA and MIT
§ Secondary school students code 3D algorithms which operate
SPHERES (Synchronised Position Hold Engage Reorient
Experimental Satellites), free floating satellites on the ISS
NEEMO: NASA Extreme Environment Mission Ops
§ ESA astronaut participating in this exploration preparatory
activity performing educational experiments

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Thank you

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ZEROROBOTICS
www.zerorobotics.org
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMP925XX2H_0.html
http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEM6SV7YJ6H_education_0.html